Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 88

[140] This is probably a result of some remembrance of a religious cultus paid to the household gods under the form of snakes, such as existed of old, according to Kromer, in Poland and Lithuania.

Who acts: 140 · What happens: be, pay, god, exist, accord, remember · To what, where: result, religious cultus, form, snakes, Poland

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (140), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 140	punct
2	140	140	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 result	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 140	punct
4	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 result	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 result	cop
6	probably	probably	ADV	_	8 result	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 result	det
8	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 remembrance	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 remembrance	det
11	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gods	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 cultus	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cultus	det
14	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cultus	amod
15	cultus	cultus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remembrance	nmod
16	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 cultus	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 household	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 household	det
19	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 paid	obl:agent
20	gods	god	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 result	parataxis
21	under	under	ADP	_	23 form	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 form	det
23	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gods	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 snakes	case
25	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 form	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 existed	punct
27	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	29 existed	case
28	as	as	ADP	_	27 such	fixed
29	existed	exist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 snakes	acl:relcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 old	case
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 existed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Kromer	punct
33	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 Kromer	case
34	to	to	ADP	_	33 according	fixed
35	Kromer	Kromer	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 existed	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Poland	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 Poland	case
38	Poland	Poland	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 existed	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 Lithuania	cc
40	Lithuania	Lithuania	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Poland	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 result	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	140	a result		probably property	tree rules
2	pay	participle		a religious cultus not said here			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	god	present			the form of snakes	of some remembrance of a religious cultus	tree rules
4	exist	participle		snakes not said here	Poland and Lithuania	of old; accord Kromer	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in poland=Location
5	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
6	remember			a religious cultus			nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7	form			snakes			nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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